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  • English "not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary" -James Nicoll, 1992

  • Philology is the foundation of humane letters - J.R.R. Tolkien

  • "Keine unter allen den wissenschaften ist stolzer, edler, steitsüchtiger als die philologie, oder gegen fehler unbarmherziger" -- Jakob Grimm

    (None among all the sciences is prouder, nobler or more contentious than philology, or less merciful towards error).

  • "One of the most interesting facts in philology is the bringing together of many words which at first sight look unrelated; and it can be shewn that the same root ES, to live, is the ultimate source of all the words following, viz. am, art, is, sooth, sin (English); essence, entity, ab-sent, pre-sent (Latin); eu- (prefix), (palæ)-onto-logy (Greek); and sutt-ee (Sanskrit)." -- Walter W. Skeat

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